TAUWHARE NEWS.
FBOM OUK OWN Coubkspondent. it last Tauwhare is ln touch with the outside world, having a telephone connected witu Cambridge. The next pressiug need is a daily mail service, which, it is to be hoped, will soon be granted. The school examination having taken place, the children are looking forward to their annual ooncert, which 13 to be held next Friday, the 16th. An the couoert is to be combined with an exhibition of work, and is to be followed by a dance, a crowded bouse is expected. A generous rain fell on Monday, the first for a long time, October one of the driest months ever known to havtubeen experienced hero. The rain was especially welcjmeto thoso who are ploughing and preparing for turnip sowing, as the heavy clay hills had cemented with the long drought. The late oat crops have suffered from the dry wuither, and the gener.il opinion is that the crops will be .short and consequently light this season. On Sunday night rather a sharp frost was experieuced, which considorably injured the potito crop, which heretofore looked remarkably well. About 30J head of catte, the property of Mr James Taylor, passed through here from Kiwitahi (this estate having been sold recently to Air D. F. McFarlane, of Canterbury) on Monday, on route for Hukanui.
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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8056, 14 November 1906, Page 2
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220TAUWHARE NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8056, 14 November 1906, Page 2
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